2019-10-9 23:59 |
6.7% of the entire circulating supply of Bitcoin is held in wallets belonging to eight major cryptocurrency exchanges
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Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
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The BTC potentially held in the wallets of Bakkt Warehouse will be insured for $125 million.
2019-9-10 10:34 | |
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Grant Thornton, the liquidators of hacked New Zealand Bitcoin exchange Cryptopia, have released an update on the progress made thus far. Cryptopia Used Co-mingled Crypto Wallets According to a statement released on its website on Wednesday (August 21, 2019), Cryptopia didn’t use individual crypto wallets.
2019-8-21 13:00 | |
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The only record to re-distribute some of the Cryptopia wallets after the January hack was held with a US database company.
2019-8-21 12:16 | |
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WikiLeaks may have amassed more than $46 million in Bitcoin based on the number of coins held by its known wallet address. WikiLeaks Sitting on a Fortune? Posting on the Bitcoin subreddit, “Boredguy32” revealed that the controversial organization may have amassed about 4,054 BTC.
2019-7-8 16:00 | |
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ZenGo's product shows how Libra can be held in other wallets.
2019-7-4 00:45 | |
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By CCN Markets: Gerald Cotten, the CEO of the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX whose death is the reason for $190 million of missing funds and a bankrupt company, had transferred user funds to his personal accounts to use them as security for margin trading, a report by Ernst & Young revealed.
2019-6-21 13:07 | |
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A blockchain startup hacked its users’ wallets to save $13 million in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency from being stolen, ZDNet reports. Security researchers advised the Komodo Platform of a ‘backdoor‘ in Agama, one of its older wallet apps, that would have allowed hackers to siphon any and all digital assets held inside.
2019-6-6 17:52 | |
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Coinspeaker Bitcoin Price Bull Race Has to Thank the Whales Holding Its Large AmountsAccording to Diar, more than one-fourth of all Bitcoin funds are held in “whale” wallets with more than 1,000 BTC each.
2019-5-29 14:20 | |
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Defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia warned it will take “some months at least” to figure out how to return tokens owed to its users. Cryptopia administrators have also requested “urgent interim relief,” which they say is critical to maintain a single SQL database that stores all of its users’ individual account holdings and contact details.
2019-5-27 17:29 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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The PR9 Network has launched a real-time trading and settlement platform for digital assets stored on cold storage wallets. Essentially, institutional clients will be able to trade in a variety of crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, and Litecoin without having to move their asset holdings held in their preferred hardware crypto […]
2019-5-5 00:23 | |
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By CCN. com: Bitcoin played a role in staging the Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Sri Lanka that killed 253 civilians, according to Israeli blockchain intelligence firm Whitestream. The agency revealed that the ISIS used Canada-based payment gateway CoinPayments to convert bitcoins to fiat money.
2019-5-2 11:02 | |
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Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC is reportedly planning to launch another blockchain phone before the end of 2019. Phil Chen, HTC’s Decentralized Chief Officer, announced the intention during a keynote speech at an investment forum event held in Taipei on Friday last week, Taiwan News reports.
2019-4-29 18:18 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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The market for hardware wallets has long been dominated by two companies. While outsiders attempted to break the hegemony with their own products, crypto market participants mostly remained faithful to hardware wallet OG’s Trezor and Ledger.
2019-3-5 22:41 | |
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Ernst & Young, the court-appointed monitor in the Quadrigacx saga, released a report on March 1 which shows that cold wallets known to have been used by the Canadian exchange have been without funds since April 2018.
2019-3-2 22:43 | |
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Preserving and protecting cryptocurrency funds in a digital wallet is fairly common, and there are many investors that end up choosing hardware wallets as a further level of protection. While it is not uncommon for investors to hold their assets at an exchange, a recent interview with CEO Mike Belshe of BitGo may make investors […]
2019-2-27 00:10 | |
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QuadrigaCX's "hot" wallets for bitcoin and ether have been nearly emptied, with the funds now held by court-appointed monitor EY.
2019-2-21 16:10 | |
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Over nine months ago, the Berkeley International Computer Science Institute streamed Nicholas Weaver’s talk entitled “Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn it With Fire. ” This week, he summarized the argument at the Enigma security conference.
2019-2-5 22:06 | |
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In a recent interview with Reuters, IOTA Co-founder and Co-Chairman of its Board, Dominik Schiener, stated that a good percentage of the stolen $11 Million MIOTA tokens taken from users’ wallets had been recovered.
2019-1-31 13:15 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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Разработчики аппаратных кошельков Trezor и Ledger опубликовали официальные ответы на сообщения об уязвимости их устройств. Ранее серию демонстрационных атак на их кошельки совершила команда исследователей Wallet.
2018-12-29 18:16 | |
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Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.
2018-12-21 20:15 | |
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A cryptocurrency designed for the adult entertainment industry, as well as one purportedly offering global access to Jesus Christ, are among some of the projects held in Ethereum (ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin’s wallet.
2018-12-19 20:04 | |
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With cyberattacks on the rise, Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has announced an insurance policy to cover its digital assets in partnership with Gibraltar-based Callaghan Insurance. Cryptocurrencies held in both the hot and cold wallets of the trading platform will be insured.
2018-12-11 03:50 | |
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There is less than $5 billion of global capacity to insure crypto wallets held in custody. Coinbase has secured a significant chunk of that.
2018-11-21 15:00 | |
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There is less than $5 billion of global capacity to insure crypto wallets held in custody. Coinbase has secured a significant chunk of that.
2018-11-21 15:00 | |
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Thailand's Democrat Party has become the first political party to use blockchain technology to elect its leaders in a primary election, which was held from November 1–9, 2018.
2018-11-14 01:06 | |
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In the world of cryptocurrencies, fair distribution of wealth is a lot more difficult to come by in this day and age. An interesting statistic shows how there are plenty of projects whose majority of the token supply is held by just 20 wallets or less.
2018-10-23 07:24 | |
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Swiss digital asset exchange Trade. io claims hackers have stolen nearly $8M million worth of cryptocurrency directly from its cold storage devices, which were supposedly kept under lock and key in a bank.
2018-10-22 18:11 | |
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On October 21, a crypto exchange Trade. io announced that on October 20, its security team was alerted to a large transaction from one of the wallets held in cold storage. As they investigated, they started noticing some irregular trading activity in TIO pairs on Bancor & Kucoin.
2018-10-22 13:31 | |
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Series A Funding Round Brings In $13 Million For Beijing Startup For Crypto Wallets Cryptocurrency wallet startup Cobo has decided that it is time to expand their Beijing-based business to overseas users.
2018-10-19 10:52 | |
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Yesterday, October 11th 2018, you may have heard of a little bit of a crash that occurred in the markets, seeing Bitcoin significantly dropping below the $6,500 mark. The third biggest digital currency saw a big change too as it moved from $0.
2018-10-12 13:00 | |
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Swiss insurance broker ASPIS SA has launched CryptoIns, a platform that provides insurance protection for its customers’ crypto funds held in personal accounts on exchanges and in wallets. The post First Online Service for Insuring Accounts on Cryptocurrency Exchanges and in Wallets Goes Live appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-10-11 22:37 | |
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Chart for BTC/USD (1W) Bitcoin (BTC) hodlers have held on to their horses during the bear trend. They have refused to give in to market pressure. In fact, most hodlers are holding at more than 70% losses.
2018-10-10 17:00 | |
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Is it Possible to Learn About Cryptocurrencies Through a Cryptopreserved Brain? At the moment, there is no information about who Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator, really is. Some speculation was focused around Hal Finney, an important and recognised software developer.
2018-10-9 21:17 | |
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An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.
2018-10-6 01:07 | |
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BitGo's Big Ideas: Secure the World's Biggest Blockchain Fortunes and Create a 1 Trillion Dollar Wallet In 2013, the stakes felt like they were incredibly high for bitcoin holders. Especially when the largest bitcoin wallets safeguarded by blockchain security provider BitGo, especially considering it held around $10 million worth of cryptocurrency. If we flash forward […]
2018-9-28 21:30 | |
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Leading companies in the gaming and blockchain space have come together to form the Blockchain Game Alliance, a coalition that will advocate for blockchain development within the gaming industry.
2018-9-28 01:05 | |
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Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform.
2018-9-27 20:50 | |
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An increasing amount of bitcoin is held by active individual users, suggesting the market is ripe for transactional growth, according to Chainalysis.
2018-9-24 16:00 | |
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Early investors of cryptocurrencies are reaping the benefits of an entirely new category, especially holders of Bitcoin (Crypto: BTC). Turns out, most bitcoins (55%) are deposited in digital wallets that have at least 200 coins.
2018-9-19 15:30 | |
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A recent report by cryptocurrency research publication Diar has revealed some interesting statistics about Bitcoin wallets and the nature of their owners. The findings show that the majority of Bitcoin is held in a small number of wallets and many of these have had no outgoing transactions even despite the 2018 bear market.
2018-9-19 01:30 | |
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More than half of the entire Bitcoin circulating supply is controlled by cryptocurrency whales, and 42 percent of them didn’t sell during peak crypto-mania. Blockchain research unit Diar has put together some interesting data that suggests less than 1 percent of all wallet addresses control $100 billion in Bitcoin.
2018-9-18 14:42 | |
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Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds.
2018-9-18 23:37 | |
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Abra, the all-in-one digital wallet and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced its support for Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) bank accounts. European users can now enable direct wire transfers from European banks to purchase any of Abra’s 28 available cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-7 23:38 | |
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